Hollow Knight: Silksong’s first huge growth has been revealed by developer Group Cherry.
Teased for 2026, Hollow Knight: Silksong – Sea of Sorrow guarantees new areas, bosses, and instruments as “Hornet’s adventures proceed in our nautically themed growth, coming free for all gamers subsequent yr.”
Additional particulars are anticipated shortly earlier than its launch, with no particular date given. This should not come as an excessive amount of of a shock, as Silksong’s preliminary launch date wasn’t introduced till only a month earlier than it dropped after one of gaming’s most notorious drawn out affairs.
Alongside the announcement of the DLC, Group Cherry additionally revealed {that a} Nintendo Switch 2 Edition of the unique Hollow Knight is in improvement. This improved model incorporates “all of the updates and enhancements that Silksong acquired on the platform: excessive body-charge modes, increased resolutions, and lots of further graphical results.”
The even higher information? If you happen to already personal Hollow Knight on Switch, you can improve to this new gen model free of charge.
The Australian studio may even be updating all present variations of the unique Metroidvania soulslike and including options and bug fixes. If you happen to’re taking part in on PC, some of these adjustments have already come into impact.
“PC gamers can expertise many of these updates proper now, through the general public-beta branches on Steam and GOG, the place they’ve simply gone dwell,” a Team Cherry blog post states. “That features full 16:10 and 21:9 side ratio help for these of you with Steam Decks or ultrawide screens.”
As half of the DLC announcement, Group Cherry stated Hollow Knight: silksong had bought greater than 7 million copies since occurring sale in September, and had hundreds of thousands extra taking part in on Xbox Recreation Move.
“It’s a very staggering quantity of gamers, greater than we may have ever anticipated (sufficient to crash all of the storefronts!),” Group Cherry stated. “Watching the neighborhood develop, seeing the wonderful artwork, the mods, the sudden methods, and the help between gamers via the sport’s challenges has been massively rewarding for us right here at residence. Your continued enthusiasm stays a large motivator as we work in the direction of increasing the sport even additional.”
Now looks like nearly as good a time as any to get into each Hollow Knight video games, then. IGN’s Hollow Knight evaluation returned a 9.4. We stated: “Hollow Knight’s wealthy world and unimaginable depth of content material will make you need to discover its caves for dozens of hours.”
Equally, IGN’s Hollow Knight: Silksong evaluation scored the sport 9/10. We stated: “Hollow Knight: Silksong is packed full of sharp platforming, attractive exploration, and nail-biting fight that is all unapologetically difficult in simply the best manner.”
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